Families from North Edinburgh facing eviction due to the Benefits Cap are taking action to insist on their right to a home. On 18 May dozens of people took over the Edinburgh City Council Chambers building as the Council held its first post-election meeting. People also occupied the Council North Office in Pilton on both…Read moreRead more
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Stop the Evictions! Everyone has the Right to a Home!
Stop Sanctions Demo is a Success
Despite officials from Unite The Union trying to cancel Unite involvement in the protest at HIgh Riggs jobcentre – reportedly due to a request by the local PCS who said one of their workers had been threatened earlier in the week by an individual – the 30th March Day of Action against sanctions went ahead…Read moreRead more
“Stop Benefit Sanctions” Day of Action
DEMONSTRATE STOP BENEFIT SANCTIONS NO TO THE CUT IN EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE ABOLISH THE WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT pay ESA on the basis of a GP sickline Thursday 30th March 10.30am High Riggs Jobcentre, 20 High Riggs, Edinburgh EH3 9HU 12 noon Maximus assessment centre, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9SJ Britain-wide…Read moreRead more
I Daniel Blake…
Groups round Scotland and beyond are organising community showings of the new Ken Loach film I DANIEL BLAKE, aiming to involve more people in grass-roots resistance to austerity, including solidarity accompanying to benefits appointments and assessments. Below is the text of a leaflet which ECAP has produced and is distributing at showings. I DANIEL BLAKE…… Shows…Read moreRead more
Edinburgh City Council & The Leak – 2 & a Half Years, a Collapsed Ceiling & Still Leaking….
MUCH of old Muirhouse is gone now, blitzed in advance of the ill-fated Waterfront Project in an orgy of city council vandalism remembered as ‘the Muirhoose Clearances.’ The empty acres that once held hundreds of families in social housing were sown with wild flower seed and hilariously re-branded as ‘the Meadows.’ But this fly-tipper’s dream…Read moreRead more